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Saturday, September 05, 2015

Obama claimed that ISIS was only a “jayvee” team even as it was
capturing Iraqi cities. Now he wants us to believe that Iran is just
another “jayvee” team even as it’s taking over Iraq, Syria and Yemen.

Like
the rest of his Iran deal talking points, the one about Iran’s tiny
military budget is false, and not only is it false, but his claim about
how small Iran’s military budget keeps changing.

A few weeks ago, in a speech at American University, he was claiming that "The defense budget of the United States is more than $600 billion. To repeat, Iran's is about $15 billion."

"Iran’s
defense budget is $30 billion. Our defense budget is closer to $600
billion. Iran understands that they cannot fight us," Obama had told the
New York Times in April.

Just now, he told the Forward, "As I pointed out repeatedly, Iran’s annual defense budget is about $15 billion."

What is Iran’s military budget? Read Obama’s lips. It’s either $15 billion or $30 billion.

Either
Iran’s military budget changes every time Obama gives a speech or he’s
playing with numbers to make it seem small. If $30 billion still seems
big, how about $15 billion? And if $15 billion is still too big, get
ready for the $7.5 billion Iranian defense budget. How can you be
worried about that?

Obama is borrowing a trick from the Manchurian
Candidate. No one is talking about how big Iran’s military budget is,
but debating how small it is. And how small is it?

Iran’s military is at over 500,000 in strength. The Basji
militia claims to be able to mobilize millions more. It has a nuclear
weapons program and some of the most advanced indigenously developed
weapons programs in the region. Iran is currently involved in wars in
Syria and Iraq. Its proxy armies have carved up Lebanon and Yemen, and
are slavering over Bahrain.

Not bad for $15 billion or $30 billion or whatever Obama is claiming it is this week.

Of course Iran’s budget isn’t $15 or $30 billion. It spent $11 billion on the Bushehr reactor alone. Its nuclear program cost upward of
$100 billion. Obama’s deal requires him to claim that the program is
peaceful, but who really believes that a country sitting on a mountain
of gas and oil blew that much money just to lower the cost of
electricity a little bit?

How much money is Iran really spending
to expand its territory and influence? Iran is allegedly spending
billions a month to back Assad’s military campaign. The total may come to as much as $35 billion a year.

That’s more than more than twice as much as Obama’s current estimate of its military budget.

The Hezbollah terror group has received billions from Iran over several years. Islamic Jihad in Israel gets between $100 and $150 million
a year. Iran cut off aid to Hamas due to the Sunni-Shiite shift.

Since
then relations are slowly being restored, but it’s unclear how much
money this will mean for the terror group. In 2007, Iran had pledged
$250 million in aid. It’s unknown how much money Iran is spending on its
Houthi terrorists in Yemen or how much money it’s spending on Shiite
militias in Iraq and Syria.

In 2007, a senior Hezbollah terrorist captured by the US
claimed that Iran was providing $3 million a month to Shiite terror
groups to attack Americans in Iraq. Considering that the Shiite militias
now dominate Baghdad and other parts of Iraq and number in the tens of
thousands, it’s a safe bet that the bill for maintaining Tehran’s
terrorist army in Iraq has gone up a whole lot since then.

It’s
unknown how much Iran is spending on its Shiite militias in Syria, but
the NDF reportedly has 100,000 men and is being trained and financed by
Iran.

And this is just the visible ground forces.

Iran
also has an international terrorist network which it has used to carry
out terror attacks everywhere from Argentina to Thailand to Saudi Arabia
to Paris. No country since the USSR has anything like it in its scope
and organizations like that cost money. We can’t even begin to guess how
much Iran spends on it.

But there are hints. The investigation
into Iran’s bombing of the Jewish Community Center in Argentina was
stymied by bribery attempts and climaxed in the assassination of Alberto Nisman, the Special Prosecutor who had accused President Kirchner of a cover-up in return for business deals with Iran.

That
sort of arrangement doesn’t come cheap. Iran is willing to spend a lot
of money to maintain a global terror network and then to clean up after
it.

So what is Iran’s real military budget?

It has the
biggest ballistic missile arsenal and the only known nuclear weapons
program in the region.

It has the largest number of active military
personnel in the region and its militias control large sections of four
other countries. It has indigenously developed fighter jets and a global
terrorist network. It has drone bases, submarines and is the "the holder of the largest chemical weapons stockpile" in the area.

This
doesn’t come cheap and you can’t have all that on the military budget
of Colombia. If you believe Obama, then Iran has a smaller military
budget than Israel and Saudi Arabia even though the military spending in
both countries is largely focused on countering threats from Iran. If
you believe Obama, Iran is no match for any of its neighbors, and yet
it’s conquering or terrorizing them one by one.

But with Obama,
the devil is usually in the details. He emphasizes the “defense budget”,
but despite its official claims, Iran doesn’t play defense. It goes on
the offensive. Its constitution states that its military is an
“ideological army” built to fulfill “the ideological mission of jihad in
Allah's way; that is, extending the sovereignty of Allah’s law
throughout the world.”

Or as the Ayatollah Khomeini said, “Islam
makes it incumbent on all adult males... to prepare themselves for the
conquest of [other] countries so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in
every country in the world.”

Iran doesn’t have a defense budget.
Like Nazi Germany or the USSR, its entire system is militarized. A
portion of its money goes to the business of government. A portion of
that exists officially as a defense budget, most of which is swallowed
up by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC). The IRGC is a terrorist group
with its own army and air force that is involved in wars across the
region.

None of these numbers really mean anything because Iran’s
accounting would make the mafia blanch. Iran is an oligarchy built on a
complex network of organizations. State-owned enterprises, generals,
Islamic foundations and terrorist bosses move money around using
everything from oil to heroin.

The official budget means even less than it does in Russia. It’s just a number you read in the newspaper.

The
IRGC controls construction companies, nuclear plants, airports, banks
and ports. Imagine if GE, HSBC and Berkshire Hathaway were all one
entity and had their own army. That’s the IRGC. Its annual revenue is
estimated to be higher than Obama’s estimate for Iran’s entire defense
budget.

Iran doesn’t have a defense budget. Its economy is its
military budget. The IRGC controls at least a third of the country’s GDP
and the vast majority of its exports. It claims a majority of the
official defense budget, but unofficially it controls a majority of
Iran’s economy.

It’s also responsible for exporting terrorism worldwide.

Obama’s
claims about Iran’s tiny defense budget, which shrinks every time he
gives a speech, are a lie. He claims that the “Gulf States, combined,
spend about eight times” as much as Iran does. In fact, Iran spends at
least as much if not more because most of its military budget is as
black as night.

Ever since he struck a deal with Iran’s terror
regime, he’s been knowingly passing on misinformation from that regime.
And Obama can’t even seem to keep the phony budget numbers he’s using
straight
.
Obama has told many lies about his Iran deal. But this
is more than just another lie. Minimizing Iran’s military spending to
make it look as harmless as possible endangers American national
security. There are already reports that Obama worked to tamper with
ISIS intelligence materials to make the terror group look weak. It was
his insistence that ISIS was only a jayvee team that let it take over
cities.

Now he wants to convince Americans that Iran is just
another jayvee team we shouldn’t take seriously. Pay no attention to the
nukes or the worldwide terror rings. Its fake military budget is so
small.

Obama deserves to be called out for every lie he has told
about his disastrous Iran deal. But it’s important to our national
security to call him out for his big lie about Iran’s little military
budget.

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comments:

Anonymous
said...

For leftists like Hilariously (Joker) Gotham Klingon the motto for the herd could be:'Corruption Is Compassion'. An example? Immigration Laws

Prof. Robert Lifton wrote about lethal wingnuts in "Destroying the World to Save It". He described Aum Shinrikyo as a forerunner of "the new global terrorism". This principle has merely been bumped up 5 clicks in Iran. A significant core group in Teheran seeks an apocalypse-hastening role in world. This is an ornate culture that in other respects is one of the most backwards in the world, among former great empries. (Look at electric lights at night from space, to notice where there's a black hole https://www.google.com/search?q=night+map+lights ). The fall of Ahmedinijad was unaccompanied by any change in religious leadership. The ruling group is the same. The Revolutionary Guards are still wealthy killers who long to see their names in lights, the light of little suns over Tel Aviv as a blasting cap to the destruction of the world.

Why does he keep lying? Because lying works, and he has no scruples. You can only fool some of the people some of the time, but that's all you need to push through disastrous policies - mobilize your base, intimidate your weak enemies, and befuddle your strong enemies with lies and confusion until the vote is over.